Jantien Jongsma (1965) shows the environment of her neighbourhood Slotervaart in Amsterdam. She first focused on the greenery and birds of the parks and then on the architecture. The inhabitants were next: cyclists, parcel deliverers, people shopping, who perform repetitive actions as in a kind of choreography.
Jongsma conceives the whole as a ballet and gives the inhabitants costumes that are folkloric and modernistic, the buildings becoming set pieces for a kind of continuous performance.
The ideal of progress of modernist architecture thus takes on a warm human quality, changing the city into a playful, nurturing environment.
In The Future can be hung both vertically and horizontally.
As in the work of an outsider artist, Jongsma tilts and turns the human figures and objects. There are two suns in the work: one at the top and one at the center right when the work hangs vertically and one at the top and one at the center left when it is displayed horizontally.